Integrate FFIS

The File Format Identification Service (FFIS) can identify a file when the caller supplies neither a PUID nor a MIME type. The PUID it returns feeds local format rules.

Enable it

Variable	Description
MES_FFIS_ENABLED	true to call FFIS. Default false.
MES_FFIS_BASE_URL	Base URL of a running FFIS, for example http://host.docker.internal:8001.
MES_FFIS_TIMEOUT_SECONDS	Timeout of the call (default 30).

FFIS is called only when a request has no puid and no mime_type. When it was used, the result names it in tool_resolution.identification_url and passes its own provenance block through in provenance.ffis.

Note

Port 8001 is also the port the docs compose profile publishes. If FFIS runs on the same host on 8001, publish one of them elsewhere.